With a pallet of corrugated card and a laser cutter, we set to, to design and create spaces and installations to house the artists work. Various structures and pieces of temporary furniture were created, most in the wonderful medium of corrugated card!
A group of pre-degree students worked with the Product Design tutors to design and create a conveyor belt, turning babies into tin cans. Produced on the Fab Lab’s CNC router.
Henrietta Pane’s Tea Enclosure gave visitors the opportunity to reflect on their experiences of the exhibition whilst enjoying a nice cup to tea.
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Peter Heywood, a BA (Hons) Contemporary Crafts student from Plymouth College of Art, helped the running club Looe Pioneers to bring Santa Claus and his reindeer-driven sleigh into Looe this year, as part of the city’s Santa Fun Run.
The reindeer were initially designed by Peter in Fab Lab Plymouth, using the 3D CAD software, Rhino 5. To test the design, he first used the Fab Lab’s laser cutter to make a 1/10 scale model from mounting board.
When the scale model was successful, Peter used the Fab Lab CNC router to cut the slot models at full size in plywood. These reindeer, when assembled, were connected using metalwork made with the large scale metal equipment in our Craft, Design & Fabrication workshops.
In addition to the full-sized assembled reindeer, the Fab Lab produced laser cut 60 kits of the miniature reindeer on mountboard, to give out to the first children who completed the Santa Fun Run.
Photos by Neil Richardson.
Find out more about the resources at Fab Lab Plymouth https://fablabplymouth.org/resources/
Interested in learning a new skill at Fab Lab Plymouth? Check out our selection of Short Courses, starting in January 2018 (URL: https://fablabplymouth.org/courses/)
On this workshop, we will show how current health and wellbeing data can be turned into three dimensional objects and used to build educational displays/tools telling some of the stories of health and wellbeing in Plymouth in an engaging and exciting way.
The workshop is aimed at anyone aged 14 or over who is interested in using the tools in our Fab Lab to tell the stories of health and wellbeing in Plymouth. This course may be of particular interest to health professionals, students of ICT or D & T, artists and makers, programmers, or even budding statisticians!
What: Make:Shift:Do at Fab Lab Plymouth
Where: Fab Lab Plymouth, Plymouth College of Art, Tavistock Place, PL4 8AT
When: Friday 27 October, 10:00am-4:00pm
Enquiries: fablab@pca.ac.uk
Tickets are free - book your place here.
Make:Shift:Do is organised by the Crafts Council and is a nationwide programme of craft and innovation workshops taking place on 27 and 28 October 2017.
